Legislative record

S 4946

Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2026

Congress.gov resources retrieved Sep 5, 2026 · Source record updated Aug 24, 2026

Legislative record

Dated status summary

As of 2026-07-13, the captured official action history reaches committee action. Latest recorded action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

A committee has recorded action, but the bill has not necessarily been reported or passed.

Method: Classify only explicit procedural terms in the captured Congress.gov action text, using the furthest documented stage and making no prediction about later action. Reviewed Sep 4, 2026.

Legislative record

Official bill facts

Congress
119
Bill type and number
S 4946
Introduced
Jul 13, 2026
Policy area
Commerce
Latest action date
Jul 13, 2026
Cosponsors
4

Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Cosponsor selection rule: show the official count for every bill in the fixed five-bill collection because it is a reproducible completeness indicator. Individual cosponsor names are omitted; the count does not describe support outside formal cosponsorship or predict action.

Official identity and role

Sponsor

The sponsor is linked only when the approved person profile and Congress.gov Bioguide ID match.

Elizabeth Warren

Senate, Massachusetts

Official legislative subjects

Subjects are Congress.gov indexing terms, not Gov Influence claims about policy merit, position, or effect.

Congress.gov supplied no legislative-subject rows in the captured subjects response. This does not mean the bill has no subject matter.

Selected official chronology

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  1. introduced

    Bill introduced

  2. committee

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

This is a selected procedural chronology, not every vote, amendment, motion, communication, or administrative action. Use the official all-actions link for the complete captured category.

Committees and subcommittees of referral

Rows reproduce the captured Congress.gov committee resource. “None listed” describes this response, not all possible committee activity.

Official committee-referral entries
ChamberCommitteeTypeSubcommittees listed
SenateCommerce, Science, and Transportation CommitteeStandingNone listed in captured referral record

Reviewed classification based on the official title’s health-data and privacy wording and the Commerce policy area; it does not state a position on the bill.

Context only

Reviewed organization context

Organization context appears only under an existing approved record basis. It does not state that lobbying targeted, supported, opposed, changed, or caused action on the bill.

No organization context has an approved record basis for this bill. Context is not added merely to make the five pages look symmetrical.

Interpretation

What this bill page cannot show

  • Bill status can change after the source retrieval and update dates shown above; check the official overview and all-actions pages for later activity.
  • The selected chronology omits some votes, amendments, motions, communications, and administrative actions.
  • Introduction, referral, reporting, passage, or enactment describes procedure; it does not establish a bill’s merit, effect, implementation, or future prospects.
  • A lobbying filing that mentions a bill or related subject does not show that the activity affected the bill.
  • Subjects, sponsorship, cosponsorship, lobbying mentions, organization context, and timing do not establish motive, coordination, influence, wrongdoing, or causation.

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issue

Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Data Privacy

This page groups reviewed filings reported under Computer Industry, Science/Technology, and Telecommunications codes. Individual filing text determines what was disclosed; the grouping does not imply a shared position or coordinated activity.

issue

Healthcare, Prescription Drugs and Medicare

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person

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. This profile pairs her current official identity and selected committee responsibilities with sponsored health-and-location-data legislation without inferring organization relationships.